MR STOUT ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
[By Telegraph.]
Invercargill, April 5,
Between 400 and 500 persons attended Mr Stout’s lecture on the Irish land question. The Mayor (Mr Johnston) was in the chair. The speaker reviewed the causes leading to the present crisis, •xpressing an opinion that so far the Laud League had been the means of oreventing rather than of occasioning agrarian outrages. Deferring to the oppression that had been practised on Ireland, he remarked that if the same had been done in Scotland the people would have resisted to the bitter end, and would have conquered too. He hoped for better things under the wise legislation of Gladstone and Bright, and he pointed out that to colonists the position of affairs gave valuable lessons respecting what to avoid in legislation. They had to guard against tho growth of a landlord class, whose existence in the colony was due to the unwisdom of early legislation. The lecturer held that the remedy for Irish unrest was Home Rule, the establishment of a kind of Provincial Parliament, and reform of the land laws.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2509, 5 April 1881, Page 2
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182MR STOUT ON THE IRISH QUESTION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2509, 5 April 1881, Page 2
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